A Global.Forest.Field for Bremen

A unique 480-hectare recreational area stretches across the green west of Bremen – a mosaic of around 4,000 allotment and community gardens, lush orchards, lively wetland biotopes, shady woodland areas and near-natural canals. It is precisely here that a future-oriented Global Field is to be created by 2026, making current global agriculture tangible and also experimenting with new impulses for sustainable production and nutrition.

The educational project cooperates on various levels with an existing forest garden project in the Waller Feldmark in Bremen. On an area of around 2,000 square meters adjacent to the forest garden, the aim is to clearly convey how global agriculture works – an area that roughly corresponds to the proportion of arable land used for food, clothing and energy per capita per year.

The Bremen “Welt.Wald.Acker” goes one step further: it combines the classic Global Field principle with the forward-looking approach of agroforestry in agriculture and the Planetary Health Diet – a way of eating that is both ecologically sustainable and beneficial to health. The project aims to demonstrate that around 1,200 square meters are enough to sustainably feed one person for a whole year in line with the Planetary Health Diet.

In addition to the existing forest garden areas, some of the existing trees will be preserved on the remaining 800 square meters of the “Welt.Wald.Acker” and will be supplemented or replaced by other edible woody plants – including robust nut and fruit trees, which will contribute to biodiversity and food supply in the long term.

The “Welt.Wald.Acker” team wants to make a contribution to soil protection, climate adaptation and the promotion of biodiversity, while at the same time demonstrating how sustainable agriculture can not only be productive, but also ecologically valuable.